Ed Atkins’ Digital Surrealism Unfolds in Tate Britain’s Largest Survey to Date
Jessie James | Stupiddope | 4th April 2025
As mundane digital functions infiltrate daily life, we all acquire a digital representation of ourselves. Atkins survey show in London focuses on these versions of ourselves, on the “me and “not-me”. His work deals with “the in-betweens: between physical and digital”, in ways that are deeply human. Emotion matters, death matters, people are awkward. “Atkins dares to ask what it means to be human when your body is rendered in code and your feelings come with a loading screen”.